Colloquia and Seminars
Fall 2012
Friday, September 7, 2012, 3:00pm
UWM Office of Safety and Assurances, UW-Milwaukee
Safety Seminar
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: UWM Office of Safety and Assurances
Friday, September 14, 2012, 3:00pm
Prof Yinsheng Wang, UC-Riverside
Chemistry and Biology of Oxidately Induced DNA Lesions
Location: Chemistry 180
Host: Xiaohua Peng
Friday, September 21, 2012, 3:00pm
Nina Yuan, UW-Milwaukee
Tunable, light-controlled interacting protein tags (TULIPs): a LOV story
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: Alexander (Leggy) Arnold
Friday, October 5, 2012, 3:00pm
Prof Robert Glaser, Ben-Gurion, University of the Negev
Bending the rules in symmetry: pseudosymmetry emulation of achiral symmetry within the asymmetric environments of Krytoracemate molecular crystals
Location: Chemistry 180
Host: James Cook
Friday, October 12, 2012, 3:00pm
Xaiver Udad, UW-Milwaukee
DNA Sequencing with Nanopores
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: Jorg Woehl
Friday, October 26, 2012, 3:00pm
Kaniz Fatema, UW-Milwaukee
Iron overload in the body, consequences and chelation therapy in the treatment of Thalassemia
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: David Petering
Friday, November 9, 2012, 3:00pm
Veronica Marco-Alvarez, UW-Milwaukee
Drug Monitoring in Athletes by Multi-Dimensional Chromotography
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: Joseph Aldstadt
Friday, November 16, 2012, 3:00pm
Prof Christopher Beaudry, Oregon State University
Synthesis of natural products with conformational chirality
Location: Chemistry 180
Host: James Cook
Friday, November 30, 2012, 3:00pm
James Wankowski, UW-Milwaukee
Applications of Raman Spectroscopy in Forensic Science
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: Mark Dietz
Friday, December 7, 2012, 3:00pm
Belaynesh Feleke, UW-Milwaukee
Small molecule alpha-helical mimetics and their biological applications
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: Alexander (Leggy) Arnold
Spring 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012, 3:00pm
Lisa Mueller, UW-Milwaukee
Enzymes in organic synthesis: Engineering biocatalysts for industrial and pharmaceutical applications
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: Nicholas Silvaggi
Friday, February 10, 2012, 3:00pm
Sarah Oplawski, UW-Milwaukee
Recent Advances in the Determination of Air Pollutants by GC-MS
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: Mark Dietz
Friday, February 17, 2012, 3:00pm
Noreena Sweeney, UW-Milwaukee
Single-Molecule Pull-Down: A New Technique to Visualize Cellular Protein Complexes
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: David Frick
Friday, February 24, 2012, 3:00pm
Michael Trakselis, University of Pittsburgh
Protein Complex Assemblies and Activities at the Replication Fork
Location: Chemistry 180
Host: Nicholas Silvaggi
Friday, March 9, 2012, 3:00pm
Huabing Sun, UW-Milwaukee
Boronate-Based Fluorogenic Probes for Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) Detection
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: Xiaohua Peng
Friday, March 30, 2012, 3:00pm
Petr Vanysek, Northern Illinois University
Electrochemistry of Interfacial Structures
Location: Chemistry 180
Host: Joseph Aldstadt
Friday, April 6, 2012, 3:00pm
Kaniz Fatema, UW-Milwaukee
Toxicity of Nanoparticles in living system
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: David Petering
Friday, April 13, 2012, 3:00pm
Phani Babu Tiruveedhula, UW-Milwaukee
Current Progress in Tuberculosis Drug development
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: James Cook
Friday, April 20, 2012, 3:00pm
Sandra Simon, UW-Milwaukee
To Be Announced
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: Dennis Bennett
Thursday, April 26, 2012, 3:00pm
Peng Huang, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
To Be Announced
Location: Chemistry 180
Host: Prof. Sosnovsky
Friday, April 27, 2012, 3:00pm
Peng Huang, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
To Be Announced
Location: Chemistry 180
Host: Prof. Sosnovsky
Friday, May 4, 2012, 3:00pm
David L. Wetzel, Kansas State University
Mid-IR and Near-IR Chemical Imaging
Location: Chemistry 180
Host: Society of Applied Spectroscopy
Fall 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011, 3:00pm
George Lorimer, University of Maryland
"The chaperonins, a two-stroke protein folding machine."
Location: Chemistry 180
Host: Peter Geissinger
Friday, October 21, 2011, 3:00pm
Sagar Tolani
"Intracellular Oxygen: Its role in intracellular processes and ways of measuring it."
Location: Chemistry 180
Host: Peter Geissinger
Friday, October 28, 2011, 3:00pm
Kelly Teske
"Multi-Component Reactions: A Direct Approach to synthesizing Sulfur Containing Heterocycles With Diverse Applications."
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: Alexander Arnold
Friday, November 4, 2011, 3:00pm
Poonam Biawat
"Role of Fluorine in Medicinal Chemistry: Modulation of Drug Like Properties."
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: James Cook
Friday, November 11, 2011, 3:00pm
Yibin Wang
"Chemical Method for Oligonucleotide Synthesis."
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: Xiaohua Peng
Friday, November 18, 2011, 3:00pm
Tim Wallington Ford
"Atmospheric and Sustainability Science at the Ford Motor Company."
Location: Chemistry 180
Host: Peter Geissinger
Friday, December 2, 2011, 3:00pm
Alaknanda Patel-Amin
"Trapping Single Molecule Using Dielectrophoresis."
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: Jorg Woehl
Friday, December 9, 2011, 3:00pm
William Wobig
"Biochemical Applications of Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry."
Location: Chemistry 180
Advisor: David Petering